The multicultural broadcaster has appointed BBC Studios alumna Emily Griggs as their new Head of Food and Entertainment. Griggs will start at the end of August, once she has mentally transitioned from BBC Studios, where she has been first a Development Executive and Head of Development and Content over the last three years. It seems that nothing (except maybe a lack of funds) can stop SBS from blitzing the reality TV, unscripted, light entertainment space. This portfolio includes some of SBS most successful original shows, including the broadcaster’s largest ever commission, The Cookup with Adam Liaw.
Griggs’ predecessor Susie Jones will start at Netflix as a creative executive in September, patrolling both the scripted and unscripted landscapes. She only held the Entertainment and Food role for three months, after nearly five years as Commissioning Editor Documentaries.
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Let’s do a comparison between the shows these two executives have worked on. The roles cover the whole spectrum from casting to field producer, runners to researchers and story producer. The selection for Emma Griggs only covers the last ten years.
Between them they cover a huge range of shows, except for cage wrestling, Survivor and extreme obstacle races. And food shows – not a priority for either of them.
| Susie Jones | Emily Griggs |
| New filmmaker at ABC | The Farmer Wants a Wife – Fremantle |
| Boys Alone & The Date Factory – Channel 4 | Dancing with the Stars – Freehand |
| Comic Relief, Absolutely Fabulous Xmas Special – BBC | The Apprentice Australia – Fremantle |
| Stories from the Golf, (S)truth if only – SBS | My Kitchen Rules – Seven |
| Mondo Thingo – ABC | Celebrity Apprentice – Fremantle |
| Headland Story Liner – Seven | Don’t Tell the Bride – Ten |
| Big Brother casting producer – Endemol Southern Star | Formal Wars – Matchbox |
| One Step Beyond – Discovery Channel, Becker Entertainment | Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy – Matchbox |
| Honey We’re Killing the Kids – Freehand TV | When Love Comes to Town – Endemol |
| First Tuesday Book Club – ABC | The Living Room – WTFN |
| Australia’s Got Talent & Girlband – FremantleMedia for Ten | House Rules – Seven |
| Saving Babies & The ultimate Donation – Quail and Ten | Married at First Sight – Nine |
| Animal Planet – host auditions | Secret Life of 4&5 Year Olds – Screentime |
| Find My Family & Rudely Interrupted – Quail and ABC | BBC Studios Development Exec |
| The World’s Strictest Parents – Seven | BBC Studios Head of Development and Content |
| The Secret Millionaire – Nine | |
| Undercover Boss – Edemol for Ten | |
| Zumbo – Fredbird for SBS | |
| Myf Warhurst’s NICE – Token for ABC | |
| Young, Lazy and Driving Us Crazy – Matchbox | |
| Factual development exec – Matchbox | |
| Date My Race – Matchbox | |
| Commissioning Editor docs SBS | |
| Head of Entertainment and Food SBS |
